{"product_id":"just-people-mark-lebar-9780197801475","title":"Just People: Virtue, Equality, and Respect","description":"We often think of justice as a virtue that belong to states, societies, and institutions. It has not always been that way. Justice began as something between individual people, and only recently has its application to larger groups become predominant. In \u003cem\u003eJust People\u003c\/em\u003e, Mark LeBar makes a case for recovering the original priority of justice in and between individual people, as a virtue of character. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe model for this virtue comes from Aristotle, whose own notion of the virtue of justice has notable shortcomings. \u003cem\u003eJust People\u003c\/em\u003e argues that we should understand justice in people as a matter of recognition of and respect for equal authority to obligate one another. That is, we should see one another as having equal capacity to obligate others through our persons and choices. This is a form of equality that is usually overlooked in discussions of equality, but here it is the cornerstone of justice, vindicating Aristotle's thought that justice is itself a matter of a kind of equality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeBar rethinks a number of popular assumptions, including that we can make sense of justice in societies or institutions without thinking of the implications for our aspirations to be just people -- a thought that is long overdue. His book is a reformulation of justice, with the potential to fundamentally change the way we treat one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Lebar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197801471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197801475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Mark Lebar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47072002310399,"sku":"9780197801475","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bd934609-b1af-493f-b311-5eb33aac20b7.jpg?v=1753415524","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/just-people-mark-lebar-9780197801475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}